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New Summer Engineering Camp Planned

High School Students can Earn College Credit

3/17/14

By UW-Washington County

A new summer engineering camp hosted by UW-Washington County will offer high school juniors and seniors an opportunity to learn about the field of engineering. “The explore engineering program is designed to give students a feel for the wide range of things that an engineer might do,” said Guy Campbell, who heads up the UW-Platteville collaborative mechanical engineering degree program at UW-Washington County. High school students who successfully complete this summer course will receive one college credit.

The engineering camp will be held at the UW- Washington County campus in West Bend the week of Monday June 23through Friday, June 27 from 9:00 am-4:00 p.m. The week long program will include daily field trips to local industries and organizations to see engineers in their natural environment including: manufacturing engineers at a manufacturing plant, mechanical engineers at a thermal engineering design firm, civil and structural engineers at an architectural firm, and electrical engineers at a local conservancy.

After studying real-world examples at Regal Ware, Signicast, Lac Lawrann, Weasler Engineering, Creative Design Network and Zimmermann Architectural Studios, students will return to the UW-Washington County campus and participate in experiments, activities and team projects related to the various types of engineering that they learned about out in the field.